Ann B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ann B., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1928. She recalls an idyllic childhood in a large, extended family; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her family, then returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; two brothers being taken to a labor camp; their weekend visits in 1941; ghettoization; hiding with her parents and remaining brother during round-ups; forced factory labor with her mother; replacing her mother when she was sick; a public hanging in 1942; separation from her parents during the ghetto's liquidation in February 1943 (she never saw them again); deportation to Sosnowiec, Gogolin, and Klettendorf; receiving food from a Polish man; sharing it with her cousin; learning that her brothers were in the male camp; transfer with her cousin to Ludwigsdorf; working at an underground ammunition factory; transfer to Go?rlitz; and liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945. Mrs. B. describes traveling to Trzebinia, then Chrzano?w, with her cousin; reunion with her brothers; their journey to Reichenbach; living in Marktredwitz; emigration to the United States; and marriage. Mrs. B. shows family photographs and discusses a recent trip to Poland.

4 videocassettes